[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 127 (Wednesday, August 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H8279-H8280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               DISCLAIMER OF STATEMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO ME

  (Mr. OBEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, twice in debate on the previous rule it was 
asserted that this bill is going to be debated tonight because that was 
my preference. That is absolutely baloney. For the last month, at the 
request of the majority, I have been trying to assist the majority to 
see to it that they finish all their appropriations bills before we 
recess for August. It has been my position from the beginning that 
telecommunications should not even be on the floor until the Labor-HEW 
bill is finished and until the defense appropriation bill is finished. 
If after that time there is time for telcom, in my view that is a 
decision that is made above my pay grade by the leadership, but I 
personally believe it is a disgrace that any of these bills, especially 
a bill 

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involving this much money, will be debated in the dead of night in such 
a limited time frame.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill should not be here at all this week.

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